Fields v. State

Leslie S. Fields, a practicing physician, was informed against jointly with Mrs. Minnie Deyo and charged with having produced an abortion upon the person of Ruth Ayer, an unmarried woman. The information charges that the offense was committed August 3, 1920, and that Miss Ayer died August 8, 1920, as a result of the operation. Defendant was granted a separate trial, and was convicted and sentenced to serve an indeterminate term of not less than one nor more than ten years in the penitentiary. From the sentence so imposed he prosecutes error.

On the part of the state Dr. Strickland testified…